Guru and Disciple

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Mahavideh Foundation

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The Guru and the Disciple
The Guru and the Disciple
Therefore, you cannot look at this in any other way. Listen! If you wanted to cut down the tree, you should not have grown it in the first place and if you want to grow it, then do not cut it. This has been my principle from the beginning! What is your principle? When the time comes, should you cut it down quickly?
Therefore, whomever you praise, you should not criticize. If you have praised him for forty years, and in the forty-first year, you criticize him, then you will lose all that you had gained in the forty years and on top of that, you bind a karmic fault.
Do not worship anyone: if you do, then your reverence for him should not break. Sincerity is the essential requirement of spiritual progress. This is all you need to understand.
Who is at fault in this? Questioner: But in this world, whoever we consider praiseworthy, as long as they behave in a way that is acceptable to us, that relationship will last. And if the other person does something even slightly wrong, then our relationship will spoil!
Dadashri: Yes, it becomes devastated. Not only does it spoil, but one also becomes an adversary of the other person.
Questioner: Whatever good feelings he had for that person goes away.
Dadashri: It goes away and on top of that, he becomes an opponent.
Questioner: Then whose mistake is it?
Dadashri: The 'one' who sees the mistake, it is his mistake! There is nothing wrong in this world. The world is for 'seeing and 'knowing,' what else? What are you calling right and wrong? It is your intellect within that is deceiving you.
Questioner: But the one who sees things as right or wrong is the one at fault, is that not what you are saying?
Dadashri: Yes, it is the fault of the intellect (buddhi). You should understand that the intellect makes you see things as positive, negative, right or wrong. Therefore, You must remain separate from it. As long as the intellect is there, it will surely do that, but You should understand whose fault it is. If your eyes happen to see something negative, You should be aware that such negativity was seen by the eyes.
The prakruti is changing constantly If you have revered a Gnani Purush or a guru, or anyone else for that matter, then if ever he becomes delirious and bites you, hits you, or even swears at you, you must not see a single fault in him. Are people likely to remain calm if someone yells abuses at them? Therefore, they lack such understanding. That guru is the one and the same that you worshipped and the change is in his prakruti. Regardless of who the person may be; it does not take long for their prakruti to become delirious - the reason being the body is made up of the tridosha of kapha, vayu and pitta. If the kapha, vayu or pitta increase within a person, he becomes delirious. (In Ayurveda these tridosha, or humors, govern all biological, psychological and physio-pathological functions of the body, mind and consciousness. They act as basic constituents and protective barriers for the body in its normal physiological condition; when out of balance, they contribute to disease processes.)
Do not speak ill of the guru What are the jivas (the human beings) of this fifth time cycle like? They are the very beings (jivas) who have criticized in their previous lifetimes. Therefore, if the guru makes a mistake due to a fault of his prakruti, people will criticize him. Once you have made someone your guru, if you are going to criticize him and this weakness is going to get in the way, then it is better that you do not make him your guru. Otherwise, there is a terrible liability in doing so. After making someone your guru, do not criticize him.